Quote for 2007-07-25
 
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:00:02 -0500 (CDT)


"TERROR acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the
mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness. FEAR accompanied
with PAIN and a sense of SHAME, has sometimes cured this disease.
Bartholin speaks in high terms of what he calls "flagellation" in
certain diseases." (Benjamin Rush, the "father" of modern psychiatry,
whose image today emblazons the official seal of the American
Psychiatric Association) (1)

"I open my mouth and the scream surrounds me. My body a lurch and
a scream of pain. A firecracker, pain and lights, burning, searing,
my bones and my flesh. I am on fire. Shorter than a second. The
fragments of a bomb sear my body. Blue-white lights, fiercer than
God, going through me  I wondered when they would be over, these
ritual burnings. The pain. I would never survive the searing pain.
'Paranoid delusions,' they wrote on my chart. 'She thinks there is
a conspiracy to kill her by electrocution.'" (Janet Gotkin) (2)

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